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Nutrition & Dietetics
Erica C. Jansen, Wentong Zhao, Andrew D. Jones, Teresa A. Marshall, Katherine Neiswanger, John R. Shaffer, Daniel W. McNeil, Mary L. Marazita, Betsy Foxman
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether dietary habits at age 2 are associated with sleep duration trajectories from ages 3 to 5. The findings suggested that consistent meal patterns and higher fruit and vegetable consumption were associated with a longer sleep duration trajectory, while frequent milk consumption at age 2 was associated with a shorter sleep duration trajectory.
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Pediatrics
Tiffany Phu, Jenalee R. Doom
Summary: This study investigated the relationships between child sleep duration, cumulative risk, and BMI across childhood, with results partially supporting these hypothesized associations, especially for male children.
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Clinical Neurology
Shirong Cai, Elaine Kwang Hsia Tham, Hai-Yan Xu, Xiuju Fu, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Fabian Yap, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek, Oon Hoe Teoh, Joshua J. Gooley, Daniel Yam-Thiam Goh, Michael J. Meaney, Nora Schneider, Anne Rifkin-Graboi, Birit F. P. Broekman
Summary: This study examines the association between different trajectories of reported sleep duration and early childhood cognition. The results show that compared to short variable night sleep trajectory, a long consistent night sleep trajectory is associated with higher cognition scores. Moderate/long consistent night sleep trajectories are also associated with higher verbal and composite scores. Children with a long consistent total sleep trajectory have higher cognition and expressive language scores. A moderate consistent total sleep trajectory is associated with higher language and verbal scores relative to a short variable total trajectory. Children with a long variable day sleep have lower cognition and fine motor scores.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Estela Blanco, Suzanna M. Martinez, Patricia East, Raquel Burrows, Paulina Correa-Burrows, Betsy Lozoff, Sheila Gahagan
Summary: This study examined the association between breastfeeding duration and body mass index (BMI) from childhood to young adulthood and found that longer breastfeeding was associated with lower BMI in early childhood, but had no significant effect on later BMI.
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
G. Huang, S. A. Aroner, C. P. Bay, S. E. Gilman, A. Ghassabian, E. B. Loucks, S. L. Buka, R. J. Handa, B. L. Lasley, S. Bhasin, J. M. Goldstein
Summary: Our study found that maternal androgen levels are associated with birth weight, particularly in girls. Furthermore, there are sex differences in the association of maternal androgens with fetal growth restriction. While there was no overall significant association between maternal androgens and weight trajectory, a significant sex interaction was observed with accelerated catch-up growth in boys.
JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
T. Norris, M. Hamer, R. Hardy, L. Li, K. K. Ong, G. B. Ploubidis, R. Viner, W. Johnson
Summary: The study found that the obesity epidemic in Great Britain not only reflects an upward shift in BMI trajectories but also a more recent increase in the number of individuals demonstrating more rapid weight gain, from normal weight to overweight, across the second, third, and fourth decades of life. Different birth cohorts showed differences in weight development patterns, with later birth cohorts being more likely to enter the class with faster weight gain.
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Clinical Neurology
Zhiguang Zhang, Eduarda Sousa-Sa, Joao R. Pereira, Anthony D. Okely, Xiaoqi Feng, Rute Santos
Summary: This systematic review identified 116 studies with a total of 329,166 children, highlighting the potential risk of short sleep duration in young children from low-income households, single families, or having overweight parents. Promoting healthy sleep duration from an early age appears crucial.
BEHAVIORAL SLEEP MEDICINE
(2021)
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Allergy
Ju Hee Kim, Eun Kyo Ha, Seung Won Lee, Hye Ryeong Cha, Hey-Sung Baek, Man Yong Han
Summary: This study found that low birth weight, high BMI during childhood, and the interaction between BMI during childhood and weight change during infancy are associated with an increased risk of childhood asthma.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jiangshan He, Yaqi Fan, Li Zhang, Chunjun Li, Fenghua Guo, Jiahui Zhu, Pei Guo, Binbin Zhang, Mianzhi Zhang, Minying Zhang
Summary: Research on the relationship between sleep duration and obesity in women is limited. This study aimed to explore the association between sleep duration and BMI, WHR, PBF, and VFA in females. The results showed that short sleep was associated with increased odds of general obesity, while long sleep was associated with increased odds of visceral obesity.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Tingyi Cao, Jiaxuan Zhao, Xiumei h Hong, Guoying Wang, Frank B. Hu, Xiaobin Wang, Liming Liang
Summary: This study investigated the association between newborn cord blood metabolome and future BMI in a group of high-risk children from low-income urban areas in the US. Different patterns of longitudinal BMI trajectories were identified and specific cord blood plasma metabolites were found to be associated with early-onset overweight and obesity.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Verity Cleland, Jing Tian, Marie-Jeanne Buscot, Costan G. Magnussen, Lydia Bazzano, Trudy L. Burns, Stephen Daniels, Terence Dwyer, Nina Hutri-Kahonen, Johanna Ikonen, David Jacobs, Markus Juonala, Ronald Prineas, Olli Raitakari, Alan Sinaiko, Julia Steinberger, Elaine M. Urbina, Jessica G. Woo, Alison Venn
Summary: This study aimed to describe BMI trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood and identify childhood sociodemographic factors related to trajectory membership. The study found five consistent BMI trajectory groups and showed that age, gender, parental education, and race were important predictors of BMI trajectory group membership.
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Clinical Neurology
Jinlei Li, Chunyu Liu, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Rhoda Au
Summary: This study found that decreasing BMI trends in late life were associated with higher risk of developing dementia. Among them, individuals with an initial increase and subsequent decline in BMI during mid-life had a greater risk of dementia.
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Dan Lin, Didi Chen, Jun Huang, Yun Li, Xiaosa Wen, Ling Wang, Huijing Shi
Summary: The study identified modifiable pre-birth or early-life factors associated with the timing of adiposity peak (AP) and adiposity rebound (AR) in children. Boys were less likely to have a late AP, but preterm born children had a higher risk of a late AP. Children breastfed for longer than 4 months were less likely to have an early AR, while children born to advanced-age mothers and who were born small for gestational age had a higher risk of early AR.
FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Gum-Ryeong Park, Jinho Kim
Summary: This study addresses important research gaps by examining the relationship between sleep duration and adolescent health in South Korea. The findings suggest that the association between short sleep duration and health is partly confounded by unobserved individual heterogeneity, and weekend catch-up sleep has limited moderating effects on this association.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Azra Ramezankhani, Yadollah Mehrabi, Fereidoun Azizi, Farhad Hosseinpanah, Pooneh Dehghan, Farzad Hadaegh
Summary: This study investigated the association between trajectories of BMI and BP from childhood to adulthood and adult CIMT. The findings suggest that cumulative burden of BMI and DBP, as well as the levels of BMI and DBP during adolescence, are associated with CIMT in adulthood.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2023)
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Peripheral Vascular Disease
Kathy Trieu, Daisy H. Coyle, Emalie Rosewarne, Maria Shahid, Rain Yamamoto, Chizuru Nishida, Bruce Neal, Feng J. He, Matti Marklund, Jason H. Y. Wu
Summary: This study modeled the impact of complying with the World Health Organization's sodium benchmarks in Australia and found that adopting more stringent WHO benchmarks could more effectively prevent cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and stomach cancer, reducing deaths and new cases.
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Sport Sciences
Kylie D. Hesketh, Verity Booth, Verity Cleland, Sjaan R. Gomersall, Tim Olds, Lindsey Reece, Nicola D. Ridgers, Leon Straker, Michalis Stylianou, Grant R. Tomkinson, David Lubans
Summary: This study summaries the grades of 10 indicators from the 2022 Australian Physical Activity Report Card to assess physical activity behaviors and supports. The results show that overall physical activity levels and screen time are the worst performing indicators, while community and the built environment are the best. Despite access to facilities and open spaces, physical activity levels of Australian children remain consistently low, calling for a National Physical Activity Plan to address this issue.
JOURNAL OF EXERCISE SCIENCE & FITNESS
(2023)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Hannah Melville, Maria Shahid, Allison Gaines, Briar L. McKenzie, Roberta Alessandrini, Kathy Trieu, Jason H. Y. Wu, Emalie Rosewarne, Daisy H. Coyle
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the nutritional quality of plant-based meat analogues in Australia compared to equivalent meat products, and to assess the level of micronutrient fortification in meat analogues. The results show that meat analogues generally have a higher health star rating, lower saturated fat and sodium content, but higher total sugar content. Additionally, most meat analogues are ultra-processed and few are fortified with key micronutrients found in meat. Further research is needed to understand the health impact of these foods.
NUTRITION & DIETETICS
(2023)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Sofus C. Larsen, Ruairi O'Driscoll, Graham Horgan, Marie-Louise K. Mikkelsen, Ina O. Specht, Jeanett F. Rohde, Jake Turicchi, Ines Santos, Jorge Encantado, Cristiana Duarte, Leigh C. Ward, Antonio L. Palmeira, R. James Stubbs, Berit L. Heitmann
Summary: This study explored the associations between substituting sedentary time with sleep or physical activity and weight-loss maintenance. It found that during the early stages of weight-loss maintenance, substituting sedentary behavior with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity can prevent an increase in body fat percentage. However, sedentary behavior had little or no influence on subsequent weight-loss maintenance.
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Jorge Encantado, Marta M. Marques, Maria Joao Gouveia, Ines Santos, David Sanchez-Oliva, Ruairi O'Driscoll, Jake Turicchi, Sofus C. Larsen, Graham Horgan, Pedro J. Teixeira, R. James Stubbs, Berit Lilienthal Heitmann, Antonio L. Palmeira
Summary: This study is a secondary analysis of the weight loss maintenance NoHoW trial, exploring the impact mechanisms of digital intervention on long-term physical activity changes. The results indicate limited effects of theory-driven motivational and self-regulatory mechanisms on actual behavior change, calling for new approaches to investigate these relationships.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Christopher Chi Wai Cheng, Jason H. Y. Wu, Jimmy Chun Yu Louie
Summary: According to a study of pre-packaged foods in Hong Kong, approximately 4% of the products contained industrially produced trans-fat. One-third of these products had trans-fat content exceeding 2%. However, the labelling of trans-fat in Hong Kong is ambiguous and may not effectively assist consumers in identifying products that are free from industrially produced trans-fat.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
(2023)
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Psychology, Developmental
Daniel das Virgens Chagas, Kylie Hesketh, Katherine Downing, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Lisa M. Barnett
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether sedentary behavior affects motor competence in young children. The results showed that sedentary behavior was not significantly associated with motor skills in young children. However, it is still recommended that parents, educators, and health professionals keep sedentary activities within government recommendations to avoid potential negative effects on child development.
JOURNAL OF MOTOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
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Pediatrics
Nanna Julie Olsen, Sofus Christian Larsen, Rasmus Koster-Rasmussen, Jeanett Friis Rohde, Jane Nautrup Ostergaard, Berit Lilienthal Heitmann, Ina Olmer Specht
Summary: The aim of this study was to determine if children enrolled in rural outdoor kindergartens had a lower risk of redeeming prescriptions for antibiotics compared to children enrolled in urban conventional kindergartens, and if the types of antibiotics prescribed differed based on kindergarten type. The results showed no difference in the risk of redeeming prescriptions for any type of antibiotics between children enrolled in outdoor kindergartens and those enrolled in conventional kindergartens.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Christoph Saner, Alistair M. Senior, Hanyue Zhang, Aino-Maija Eloranta, Costan G. Magnussen, Matthew A. Sabin, Markus Juonala, Marco Janner, David P. Burgner, Ursula Schwab, Eero A. Haapala, Berit L. Heitmann, Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, Timo A. Lakka
Summary: This study tested for protein leverage and the protein leverage hypothesis in children and adolescents. The results showed that proportional energy intake of proteins was inversely associated with energy intake, and increased energy intake on diets with lower protein content was counterbalanced by increased energy expenditure and did not lead to increased adiposity.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2023)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Daisy H. Coyle, Laura Sanavio, Eden Barrett, Liping Huang, Kristy K. Law, Pabasha Nanayakkara, Jonathan M. Hodgson, Merita O'Connell, Belinda Meggitt, Carrie Tsai, Simone Pettigrew, Jason H. Y. Wu
Summary: The study assessed the food environment at a university in Sydney and found that improvements are needed in terms of availability, placement, and promotion of healthy foods. Sugary drinks and unhealthy products were prevalent in the food outlets, and there was a lack of healthy options at checkout areas.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Karen Christina Walker, Fanney Thorsteinsdottir, Henrik Thybo Christesen, Vibeke Elisabeth Hjortdal, Berit Lilienthal Heitmann, Ina Olmer Specht, Mina Nicole Handel
Summary: This study found no significant association between vitamin D supplementation or vitamin D status during pregnancy and congenital anomalies (CAs) in the offspring. However, the interpretation of the results should be cautious due to the limitations of the current studies.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Hanyue Zhang, Alistair M. Senior, Christoph Saner, Nanna J. Olsen, Sofus C. Larsen, Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, Berit L. Heitmann
Summary: The protein leverage hypothesis (PLH) was confirmed in preschool children, with protein intake being the most tightly regulated macronutrient and energy intake inversely related to dietary protein concentration. High dietary protein intake was associated with decreased waist- and hip-height ratio over time, suggesting an impact on obesity risk in children.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Eden M. Barrett, Ashleigh C. Hart, Saiuj Bhat, Matti Marklund, Daisy H. Coyle, Maddie Heenan, Simone Pettigrew, Jason HY. Wu
Summary: This study examined the impact of retail food environment interventions on the dietary behavior of students and staff in postsecondary education settings. The findings suggest that these interventions have a positive effect on improving dietary behaviors.
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2023)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Frank Qian, Nathan Tintle, Paul N. Jensen, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Fumiaki Imamura, Tobias Rudholm Feldreich, Sarah Oppeneer Nomura, Weihua Guan, Federica Laguzzi, Eunjung Kim, Jyrki K. Virtanen, Marinka Steur, Christian S. Bork, Yoichiro Hirakawa, Michelle L. O'Donoghue, Aleix Sala-Vila, Andres V. Ardisson Korat, Qi Sun, Eric B. Rimm, Bruce M. Psaty, Susan R. Heckbert, Nita G. Forouhi, Nicholas J. Wareham, Matti Marklund, Ulf Riserus, Lars Lind, Johan Arnlov, Parveen Garg, Michael Y. Tsai, James Pankow, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Bruna Gigante, Karin Leander, Julie A. Pester, Christine M. Albert, Maryam Kavousi, Arfan Ikram, Trudy Voortman, Erik B. Schmidt, Toshiharu Ninomiya, David A. Morrow, Antoni Bayes-Genis, James H. O'Keefe, Kwok Leung Ong, Jason H. Y. Wu, Dariush Mozaffarian, William S. Harris, David S. Siscovick
Summary: This study aimed to determine the associations of blood or adipose tissue levels of EPA, DPA, and DHA with incident AF. Using participant-level data from 17 prospective cohort studies, it was found that levels of omega-3 fatty acids, including EPA, DPA, DHA, and EPA+DHA, were not associated with increased risk of incident AF.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Susan Paudel, Gita D. Mishra, Jenny Veitch, Gregore I. Mielke, Kylie D. Hesketh
Summary: This study aimed to examine the association between cultural background, motherhood, and physical activity. The results showed that women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds had lower odds of meeting physical activity guidelines and participating in organized sports. Motherhood was also associated with lower odds of meeting physical activity guidelines and high sitting time.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & HEALTH
(2023)